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  Sports Comment, September 29 Performances by West Indian Batsmen: Highest Run Aggregate in a Test Series 1928 - 2020 By Dale Brown NEW YORK, NY. Thursday, October 1 --- This exercise will identify the West Indian batsmen who have scored an aggregate of at least 400 runs in a Test series. The number of runs (400) is based on, but certainly not limited to a 5 match Test series. The premise is that in a 5-match series, the player would average 80 runs per match. NB: The aggregate for a 6-match series is increased to 450 runs or 75 runs per match. Unfortunately, the past 20 years have seen the majority of series being contested over 3 or less Tests. Players whose careers started after 2000, will have less opportunities to feature on the list. The paucity of matches during the pre-war era also means that the great George Headley will not be featured much.   Brian Lara West Indies in Australia (12) Desmond Haynes (1988/89) – 5 matches -537 runs, avg. 59.66 R...

  NEW YORK, NY. Barbados , one of the Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean with the closest affinity to England, will finally cut its umbilical cord with the British Monarchy and will become a Republic within the next 14 months. This move has placed pressure on the Jamaican government to follow suit as many Jamaicans feel their country should have been a republic years ago. Governor General Dame Sandra Mason delivered the jaw dropping news yesterday as she delivered her Throne Speech at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, telling her audience that the time had come for Barbados to become self-governing, noting that the move to transition from a parliamentary constitutional monarchy under a hierarchy monarchy, to a Republic, would be realized before the island celebrated its 55th anniversary of independence on November 30, 2021. “Since Independence, we Barbadians have sought constantly to improve our systems of law and governance so as to ensure they best reflect our characte...

  Regional Exam results are out, all over the Caribbean and there are no shortage of success stories making the rounds in the newspapers, on television and on social media. That said, you might want to hold the champagne, as the Ministry of Education in Jamaica, has written to the Chairman of the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), Sir Hillary Beckles, requesting a thorough investigation into several anomalies that have been brought to the ministry's attention. This follows widespread backlash and outrage from students after the Tuesday, September 22 release of the results in which many students received what they labelled as “inaccurate” results. Several results also came back “ungraded” or “absent”. Also of concern, the circumstances that led to results being sent directly to students before schools and the ministry, thereby preventing the ministry from identifying, in advance, anomalies or errors in the results. In a statement, the Barbados-based Caribbean Examination...